Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 172
Had the ethnic civilisation of Ireland been suffered to develop according to its own laws, it is probable that, as the roofed central chamber of the cairn would have grown until it filled the space occupied by the mound, so the open-walled temple would have developed into a covered building, by the elevation of the walls, and their gradual inclination to the centre.
Who acts: civilisation, chamber, walled temple, cairns · What happens: have, suffer, develop, accord, be, roof · To what, where: ethnic civilisation, Ireland, roofed central chamber, space, covered building, walls
This is a sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (civilisation, chamber, walled temple, cairns), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 civilisation | det |
| 3 | ethnic | ethnic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 civilisation | amod |
| 4 | civilisation | civilisation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Had | obj |
| 5 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 8 suffered | mark |
| 6 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 suffered | nsubj |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 suffered | aux:pass |
| 8 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 civilisation | acl:relcl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 develop | mark |
| 10 | develop | develop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 suffered | xcomp |
| 11 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 laws | case |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 according | fixed |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 laws | nmod:poss |
| 14 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 laws | amod |
| 15 | laws | law | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 develop | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 probable | punct |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 probable | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 probable | cop |
| 19 | probable | probable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Had | conj |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 probable | nsubj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 grown | punct |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 32 grown | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 chamber | det |
| 24 | roofed | roof | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 chamber | amod |
| 25 | central | central | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 chamber | amod |
| 26 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 grown | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 cairn | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 cairn | det |
| 29 | cairn | cairn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 chamber | nmod |
| 30 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 grown | aux |
| 31 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 grown | aux |
| 32 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Had | conj |
| 33 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 35 filled | mark |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 filled | nsubj |
| 35 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 grown | ccomp |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 space | det |
| 37 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 filled | obj |
| 38 | occupied | occupy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 space | acl |
| 39 | by | by | ADP | _ | 41 mound | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 mound | det |
| 41 | mound | mound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 occupied | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 developed | punct |
| 43 | so | so | ADV | _ | 51 developed | advmod |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 temple | det |
| 45 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 walled | compound |
| 46 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 45 open | punct |
| 47 | walled | wall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 48 temple | amod |
| 48 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 developed | nsubj |
| 49 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 51 developed | aux |
| 50 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 51 developed | aux |
| 51 | developed | develop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 1 Had | parataxis |
| 52 | into | into | ADP | _ | 55 building | case |
| 53 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 55 building | det |
| 54 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 55 building | amod |
| 55 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 developed | obl |
| 56 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 59 elevation | punct |
| 57 | by | by | ADP | _ | 59 elevation | case |
| 58 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 59 elevation | det |
| 59 | elevation | elevation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 developed | obl |
| 60 | of | of | ADP | _ | 62 walls | case |
| 61 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 62 walls | det |
| 62 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 59 elevation | nmod |
| 63 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 67 inclination | punct |
| 64 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 67 inclination | cc |
| 65 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 67 inclination | nmod:poss |
| 66 | gradual | gradual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 67 inclination | amod |
| 67 | inclination | inclination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Had | obl |
| 68 | to | to | ADP | _ | 70 centre | case |
| 69 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 70 centre | det |
| 70 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 67 inclination | nmod |
| 71 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the ethnic civilisation | cairns's gradual inclination to the centre obl | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent civilisation=Patient | ||||
| 2 | suffer | participle · passive | Ireland | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | develop | to-infinitive | accord civilisation's own laws | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | is | present | civilisation | that nsubj; probable property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | roof | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | grow | would · perfect · passive | the roofed central chamber of the cairn | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | fill | past | chamber | the space | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent space=Patient | ||||
| 9 | occupy | participle | the space not said here | by the mound | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 10 | wall | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 11 | develop | would · perfect | the walled temple | a covered building | by the elevation of the walls | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by elevation=Location | |||
| 12 | cover | participle | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 13 | elevate | the walls | nom elevation «event transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 14 | incline | cairns = cairn | to the centre | nom inclination «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent to=obl |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Project Gutenberg book 8109 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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